• English word animal in the Shona Dictionary
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mhuka

• noun , class(9)
• synonyms: chikara, chipuka
• dialects/origins: Karanga, Korekore, Manyika, Zezuru

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

English translation

animal

mhuka

• noun , class(10)
• stem : mhuka
• dialects/origins: Karanga, Korekore, Manyika, Zezuru

Plural of mhuka.

English translation

animals